[nate4one]

All that said, reading a Left Behind book is still probably a lot more wholesome than an evening parked in front of a television.

Have you seen the movie "Tribulation?"
I am not so sure you are right here.
Deception in the name of Christ is worse is it not?Escapeism, inspiring FALSE hope and showing ones self to be a false teacher and maybe even a dooms-day nut can be quite detrimental in my opinion.

Fiction is fiction.

[George W. Bush]

Deception in the name of Christ is worse is it not?Escapeism, inspiring FALSE hope and showing ones self to be a false teacher and maybe even a dooms-day nut can be quite detrimental in my opinion.

You mean like a Waco-style wacko? I think that any sound Christian would be warned off by the unchristian preaching and practices of that cult. The same may be said for other cults like the Latter-Day Saints and others.

Any time you let your teachers start treating the Bible like a ouji board, you're in trouble. The use of peculiar emphasis upon certain passages, finding key doctrines of belief or practice in a single verse, mining the Old Testament as a sole support of doctrine, using inappropriate assemblages of verses to support doctrine, writing new scriptures, or packing many doctrines into a single passage or refusing to recognize the plain doctrine in scripture that is historically common to orthodox Christians, these are all things you can routinely observe in cultic and unorthodox (nominally) Christian groups.

Eschatology is not observably more dangerous to your soul. And of course, we Calvinists have a certain confidence in God in these matters that others lack.